Schubert Ensemble - Fauré: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 61:01 | 261 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHAN 10576
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 61:01 | 261 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHAN 10576
These readings of Fauré's two late piano quintets by the Schubert Ensemble of London are paradoxical. The group's performances are strong-willed and purposeful in the outer movements, particularly in the C minor Quintet's ever accelerating Finale, yet soft-focused and sensuous in the central slow movements, especially the D minor Quintet's deeply dolorous Adagio. The tone changes from robustly incisive to sweetly sonorous, the ensemble from vigorously muscular to smoothly refined, and the rhythms from sharply accented to softly undulating.
